#pride

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride. ↗

— Boris Kodjoe

#because #black #carry #experience #faith

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character. ↗

— Ralph Thomas Walker

#character #connections #i #i am #i do

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#blacks #conscious #hideous #like #oppression

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing. ↗

— Allen West

#black #get #good #having #i

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. ↗

— Isoroku Yamamoto

#having #himself #man #matter #military

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#asleep #books #conversation #dead #design

She was like a queen who beholds the virgin soil of her kingdom invaded and wasted by a traitor. Any other thing she would have pardoned: infidelity, indifference, cruelty, any sins of manhood's caprice or passion, but who should pardon this? The sin was not alone against herself; it was against every law of decency and truth that ever she had been taught to hold sacred; it was against all those great dead, who lay with the cross on their breasts and their swords by their side, from whom she had received and treasured the traditions of honor and purity of race. It was those dead knights whom he had smote upon the mouth and mocked, crying to them: 'Lo! your place is mine; my sons will reign in your stead. I have tainted your race forever; for every my blood flows with yours!' The greatness of a race is a thing far higher than mere pride. Its instincts are noble and supreme. Its obligations are no less than its privileges; it is a great light which streams backward through the darkness of the ages, and if by that light you guide not your footsteps, then are you thrice accursed, holding as you do that lamp of honor in your hands. So she had always thought, and now he had dashed the lamp in the dust. --"Wanda ↗

— Ouida

#duty #honor #obligation #pride #race

I pride myself on being kind. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#i #kind #myself #pride

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. ↗

— Josh Billings

#airs #best #cures #man #never

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#dignity #man #pride #self-love #woman